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So while fair or not, every player named in the report is tainted for life. Clemens' stain is far worse because it very possibly will cost him the Hall of Fame. I can't speak for the rest of my voting Baseball Writers' brethren as to whether they will invoke the "character/sportsmanship" clause when it comes to passing Hall of Fame judgment on the known steroids cheats. I have been on record as saying I won't vote for any of them, and if I'm to be consistent in that stance, that now has to include Clemens. It bothers me, though, that so many other steroids cheats have eluded detection (and, subsequently, Mitchell's report), and that some of them are thus likely to be voted into the Hall of Fame under false pretenses. Is this fair either?